c/psychedelic-salon
Dive into the archives of psychedelic thought. Lorenzo Hagerty hosts essential conversations on entheogens, science, and the counterculture.
…wide web, the hydrogen bomb and the cat scanner. How can we, my god? You know we don't even have the calculus yet. Newton hasn't been born yet let alone Einstein. I mean we're running around essentially, we're primitives is what I'm saying we don't have…
…from classical Greek times through the middle ages and so on but primarily it's associated with a recent beginning with Galileo, Kepler, Newton and so on. This is geometry with motion. So the visual strategies necessary to think and work in this area of…
…that's where we do all this science that has led us into these incredibly alienating abstractions. This goes back to newton. Newton said time is pure duration. He visualized time as an object. Notice Ralph Aristotle's effort to describe nature with perfect…
…is happening. And he even felt that America had a role to play in all that. But we must transcend the demonic world of Newton and the satanic mill to industrialism. And I am definitely very hopeful, but for no good reason that I can tell you. I just…
…claim to universality by wildly exaggerating its accomplishments. For example, science to do its work. I mean, modern science post Newton, depends on probability theory. But probability theory has a built in assumption that has never been thoroughly looked at.…
…probability theory has a built in assumption that has never been thoroughly looked at. And that is the assumption of what Newton called pure duration, meaning that science, if you describe a scientific procedure to someone, they don't ask whether you did it…
…This is astonishing and ends a whole intellectual effort that, as I say, began with the Greeks, gained momentum with Newton, gained incredible intellectual focus throughout the 20th century, and is now completely. It's the equivalent of the sequencing of the…
…what did we have? We had the cube, the perfect circle, the dodecahedron, so forth and so on. And then through the genius of Newton and Leibniz in that crowd, the infinite set of ellipses that we could extract from the section cone that allowed us to do…
…less certain. Here's what I think is happening. First of all, let's look at the western notion of time as we derive it from Newton. The western notion of time is that time is what is called pure duration. All time is, in western physics, is the place…
…16th and 17th century. Adam Weishaupt and the Illuminati, is another effort to do this. And even the royal Society founded by Newton and Hook and those people, was still an effort to redeem science for the spirit. So the alchemical spirit lives on. It…
…a biological machine that is much, much older. And the hardware doesn't change, but the software changes. I mean, in 1660, Newton invents the calculus. The software changes. In the 900s, in the Umayyad caliphate of Baghdad, they invent algebra. These are…
…in the Amazon himself. He then ran the Harvarder Beria and all that. So he is an enormous influence on anyone. He's the Newton and the Abraham of the field. Now he's very elderly and retired, but his influence is major now. And, well, another person is.…
…of modern science is entirely linked to the establishment of the universal postal union, because suddenly Leibniz could send letters to Newton and all these people could communicate with each other. On a scale of weeks instead of years or never. And they…
…is the basic notion. The idea is that time, which in western physics and philosophy is assumed to be flat, or what Newton called pure duration. And the only adjustment of that idea that's ever taken place in the scientific canon is that Einstein added…
…I am not. And so novelty theory, but novelty theory needs an equation to go up to the great simulacra of true science with Newton and Einstein and Huygens and Maxwell and those people. And so, over the past 20 years, I've tried to do this, and I've…
…ideas, lots of screwballs are of. Have attained great success with their ideas. You know, you don't want to look too hard at Newton or Wagner or Thomas Aquinas or anybody else. So the squirrel test or the fluff test is insufficient. Well, so then what…
…Amazon situations where the conventions of modern physics mean nothing. Nobody's speaking English. Nobody knows about the periodic table or Newton or any of that. They're operating in another world. And what they're doing is in these states of intoxication,…
…if you want to think of it that way. In other words, that time is not simply a dimension of pure duration, as Newton thought, but the time is actually a topological manifold over which events meander as they find their way to lower energy gradients or…
…this. Are you're proposing a revolution in physics based on a chinese oracle, is that right? You're suggesting that we should Chuck Newton and Einstein based on a 3000 year old fortune telling book, is that right? Not exactly. The I ching. My interest in…
…and it was the drag, it was wars of religion, that little clip that indicates a descent into novelty I call Newton's notch. Newton was important enough that the entire. I mean, I'm teasing a little bit. There was other stuff going on, the foundation of…
…come up with. And why is this? It's because we took a wrong turn in our modeling of time. We, and this happened with Newton. It is treated as what is called pure duration in western philosophy. It simply means that you have to have this stuff in order…
…they have this same epistemic naivete, this inability to distinguish between subjective and objective world through the intercession of Newton and Descartes, that Frederick the elector and the alchemists around him and the alchemists that preceded them through…
…structure of scientific revolution. Because what you'll learn there, to your amazement, is that these great intellectual breakthroughs like Newton and Einstein and Planck and so forth, they don't come out of careful examination of the evidence and conservative…
…the city of lost angels to celebrate what was one of the great seminal events in the history of the 20th century. You know, Newton was asked of his theory of gravitation, how could he ever have made this leap of imagination? And Newton said it was very…
…century. You know, Newton was asked of his theory of gravitation, how could he ever have made this leap of imagination? And Newton said it was very easy. I stood on the shoulders of giants. And everyone who has done psychedelic research, research on…
…of law and freedom have been worked out since the late 17th century, when, after the cromwellian revolution was disposed of and Newton published the principia in England, people like John Locke and Hume and Thomas Hobbes and began to work out the social…
…in England, people like John Locke and Hume and Thomas Hobbes and began to work out the social implications of all this. While Newton and Leibniz and other people on the continent by the NazI and so forth, worked out the implications of the law, part of…
…than law, has the curious effect of invigorating the universe and making it not something static, like a piece of furniture, or, as Newton imagined it, a divine clock, a machine built by God, and then set going to the last tick of eternity. But if habit…
…the real difference between what freedom and law means and what novelty inhabit means. The way science has been done since Newton is through probability theory. You get this with Cantor and these people. Probability theory is a very, very necessary tool for…
…are willing to accept that the universe is an organism rather than a machine, which is what we inherit out of Descartes and Newton. If we can see that the universe is an organism, then we can see that it is evolving across all spectrums of phenomena.…
…rap about Isaac Newton, you'd be right. And so let's begin. To. Yeah. Can you send me just a little something about Newton and the suppression of physical cult? Yes. Well, Newton is an interesting figure because, you know, Newton is the great father,…
…let's begin. To. Yeah. Can you send me just a little something about Newton and the suppression of physical cult? Yes. Well, Newton is an interesting figure because, you know, Newton is the great father, father of modern science. And he created. He was…
…just a little something about Newton and the suppression of physical cult? Yes. Well, Newton is an interesting figure because, you know, Newton is the great father, father of modern science. And he created. He was the one who figured out that you could…
…various techniques that have been derived out of it, like partial differential equations and that kind of thing. But you're right. Newton himself was a man with a foot in two worlds. He was a thoroughgoing occultist. His alchemical experiments and notebooks…
…it was. The Royal Society was really the first think tank. It was a very modern institution. And so in the character of Newton, we see the magical mentality and the modern mentality welded into one individual. There are other cases like this off and on…
…that plutonium is not sulfur and tin is not oxygen, these species of time display properties. Time is not, as. As Newton thought, pure duration, some kind of intellectual abstraction necessary for a serial universe. Time is a real thing. It's as palpable…